Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

That's a really easy one to answer. We've already established that we have not cut half a billion dollars from aged care. There is nowhere in any budget over that period of time that you can point to in any way that is different to the fact that we have improved our funding to aged care and to our senior Australians by a billion dollars every year, increasing year-on-year. Since we took over the Treasury benches there has an increase of over $5 billion, and we can expect there to be an increase of the around the same amount over the next five years. So, again, there is no point asking a question when the premise of that question is erroneous. Please don't confuse our senior Australians about what is happening.